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> Hollywood, Silicon Valley, academia, and the news media all lean left.

citation needed.

Silicon Valley is a monument to capitalism and most if not all entrepreneurs lean libertarian.

As for the news media, as an example, Fox News has the highest viewership in the US. And for the others, ever thought about why you're not seeing a lot of coverage about unions/worker rights/worker strikes? Don't mistake anti-Trump rhetoric with 'left leaning'..

So I'm not sure we're you're getting your 'data' from.

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Fox News has the biggest viewership of a single outlet, and it's right-wing, sure (93+% of viewers self-identify as Republican).

But MSNBC viewers self-identify as Democrat at the rate of 95%, NYT as 91%, NPR at 87%, CNN at 79%.

You need to compare aggregate numbers if you're trying to be fair.

The source for the above is Pew Research Center, Sept 12, 2020, published in this Tweet: https://twitter.com/pewresearch/status/1304908656543178752

Sigh.. Should we forget about the Sinclair Broadcast Group which is the second largest TV station owner in the country and does crap like: https://youtu.be/UOaayej-130?t=34 ?

Saying 'all media is left leaning' is factually false.

So capitalism is right-wing now? Oh let me guess, this is the old "Democrats are actually right-wing", right?

> As for the news media, as an example, Fox News has the highest viewership in the US.

Yes one channel is different than every other, of course viewership is concentrated there -- all the lefty viewers are spread out over the remaining channels.

If the other news channels aren't "left-wing" then Fox isn't "right-wing", and everything is meaningless. There isn't a large population of commies or nazis in the US, despite what the media would have you believe. Both parties are pretty near the center, with some individual outliers.

In what universe is capitalism not an emphatically right wing economic system?

In the universe where way too many Americans think left vs right wing is whether you support reproductive rights or not.

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